Tournament talk

19 Mar 14

Jim Boeheim says Syracuse may have been overestimated early in season

(Kevin Hoffman-USA TODAY Sports)

By Erik Brady

Syracuse started 25-0 and has lost five of its last seven. So Jim Boeheim was asked at his news conference in Buffalo Wednesday about being underestimated and coming in like “a wounded animal.” Boeheim has never met a premise he’ll accept without argument.

“I don’t even see it that way, and I don’t really pay too much attention to that,” he said. “Last year we lost five out of our last six games and went into the tournament” and reached the Final Four.

“The tournament’s a different thing. You can start playing well in one game, and all of a sudden, you can get on a roll. So I don’t really look at it that way. I think we probably were overestimated a little bit when we were 25-0.”